英語リスニング - No.343 Learning Languages
Ben talks about his students and their learning styles.
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Ben: It helps in that I have insight to how somebody learning a foreign languageneeds things explained because I've learned for myself. However in someways it doesn't help because the Japanese learner, the Japanese sortof mind, and how they learn languages is so very different from anywherein Europe or South America so activities that would work really wellwith a European western, South American audience, or South Americanclass, don't seem to work at all due to some of the differences in Japaneseand Western culture.
Eli: Do you think the whole sort of Japanese schooling system is very different?
Ben: It's extremely different.
Eli: How is that?
Ben: I haven't got a great insight into it but I think the kids have to worka lot harder here. All, I teach a lot of high school children and they'reoften coming to my lesson, in between their breaks between cram school,on a national holiday, in the summer holiday. When I was a kid I'd beplaying in the park and beating up girls up the street with a woodenstick or something.
Eli: And do you reckon that is kind of passed on with the ****** of worksociety here, like sort of similar sort working, or?
Ben: Yeah, I suppose so. I think a lot is expected of them all throughoutthere lives. Two of my neighbors are both salary men, and they oftenare arriving at home very, very late, and a lot more is expected ofthe Japanese staff at the school than is of the western staff. They'lloften ask them to do jobs that take twice as long as what they ask us.I don't know whether that is because they expect the Japanese staffcan do more, or they just think we're stupid, which some of us are!